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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: BSDI as host to terminals? and ... Date: 26 Apr 1996 12:50:29 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH Dresden Lines: 49 Message-ID: <4lqgqm$cdp@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <4lq2i9$82@orb.direct.ca> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 hossers@Direct.CA (Randy Dufresne) writes: >Is BSDI suitable as a host for dumb terminals in an office >enviroment much like most SCO boxes are used? Most likely. The mere question is whether you've got the applications to run that will talk to the dumb terminals. >Why so many variations of BSD? Lites 4.4 BSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD >FreeBSD, BSDI and others, What are the major differences? ``Lites'' is something different the 4.4BSD-Lite, it's a Mach BSD server. 4.4BSD-Lite (or 4.4BSD-Lite2) is the grandfather of all the modern BSD implementations. As the name ``Lite'' suggests, it's an incomplete system, since the people at the University of Berkeley, California had to rip out all the ``legally encumbered'' parts from the system before releasing the remainder into the public. (This are those parts of the system that were considered to be inherited from the 15-year old Western Electric UNIX/32V that served as the starting point for the 3BSD development ages ago. Since their ownership was claimed by <insert today's owner of the UNIX source code here>, they could not be released into public.) Starting with the 4.4BSD-Lite predecessor, the Net-2 release, two offspring systems have been developing, the commercial BSD/386 (maintained by BSDi), and Bill Jolitz' freeware 386BSD, intended to be a research operating system. BSDi continued to maintain a commercial system (now called BSD/OS), while Jolitz abandoned the development on 386BSD for various (not completely known) reasons. The result out of this was that two independent groups of people continued developing a freeware BSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD, starting by about the same time both. Both groups never merged together for various (mainly personal) resons, but later focused on different goals: NetBSD on a good multi- platform support, FreeBSD remained on the i[3456]86 platform by now, but tries to provide an easy-to-install system with improved usability also for those end-users without Internet access. OpenBSD started much later as a splitoff from NetBSD, also for personality reasons. >Which is most stable? All of them. :) -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j